WHILE orthodox churches have maintained studied silence thus far over the controversial Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Code apparently targeted at Nigerian Pentecostal churches, there appears to be disagreement within the Pentecostal movement, as founder of International Institute of Church Growth to strengthen pastors and support churches to grow and be healthy, Dr. Francis Akin-John, said that the current objection to the code was unnecessary.

ONE person was shot and wounded in another gun battle, Sunday evening, between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Warri South-West and Udu Local Government Areas, Delta State.

The Nigerian authorities must immediately comply with a High Court order and release the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife from detention, said Amnesty International.

Senior lawyers, a jurist, human rights activists and academia yesterday, blamed politicians for unbriddled corruption in the country, noting that the fight against the menace should be championed by the people not government.

THE Nigerian Army has said that its recent security exercise tagged, Operation Python Dance, in South-East was a huge success, insisting that it denied miscreants and criminals, freedom to act and molest the people.

Ordinarily, it would have required up to the second half of the year for those in the minority to start saying “I told you so!” But, fortune and research had combined to provide optimists an early advantage in the competition for the minds of Nigerians. For this writer, this turn of events was expected and the reasons had been pointed out in the December article. But, the pessimists might have ignored it as hearsay and unreliable information, while the optimists might have missed its significance altogether.

By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—A Benin-based pastor, Emokpae Great, is currently on the run following the alleged discovery of a love affair between him and a female member of his church by the woman’s husband, one Mr. Anthony Ehikioya. Pastor Emokpae was said to have run away after angry youths stormed his church yesterday, destroying church’s […]

Despite a bearish out-look that pervaded the equities market for most part of last week, investors’ interest on financial services’ sector spiked, resulting in exchange of 903.66 million shares valued at N3.34 billion in the sector.

Antonio Conte will hold talks with Diego Costa at Chelsea’s training ground tomorrow, according to Sky sources.

You see, this information is just coming out and of course we are trying to identify the source, the parties concerned, and all that. If you remember, we were talking about brokers who are unlicensed to practice. It may shock you to know that we have not yet identified all of them. It is quite impossible to do so, because, we have some brokers that are not even members of NCRIB, and some of them are the ones actually doing a lot of government businesses.